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Show Y A Plant That Does Doubleufl ' V- v b - rir; Vv M ' r M VI W w V ' i it i 0N hundreds of thousands of fertile fer-tile acres, from Ohio to the Pacific Coast, farmers are preparing prepar-ing to harvest their 1943 crop of sugar beets. From the crop Trill be produced enough sparkling pure white sugar to supply an eight-ounce eight-ounce weekly household ration for almost two-thirds of the population ot the United States for one year. In time of war, with the imports ot foreign sugar reduced by the shortage of ocean shipping, the production of sugar within the United States has become more than ever important to our national welfare. Sugar is essential to the diet because it supplies the body with needed energy, and it supplies that energy more efficiently and at less cost than any other common food. But the usefulness of the sugar beet does not end with the extraction of the sugar from its tapering root, for the leafy foliage, the pulp which remains after the extraction of sugar, and molasses, ire fed to farm animals and result Farm Security A&minlitratlo in the production of meat and milk. It is calculated that an average acre of sugar beets will produce 3,500 pounds of sugar and, when the by-products are properly fed to' animals, about 300 acres of meat. The total amount of human fool produced from an acre of sugar beets is greater than from any-other any-other crop extensively grown ia the temperate zone. The sugar ot commerce the sugar which housewives ordinarily use in their kitchens and on the table is technically known as sucrose. Whether it be derived from the sugar beet, the sugar cane, or some other plant, sucrose is always the same substance. The juices of the sugar beet and the sugar cane contain sugar in greater quantities than other plants, and for that reason they have become the principal commercial sources of the product. Sugar from cane and sugar from beets are alike In appearance, purity, and food value, p" ' ay be usecj interchangeably 'I'pcses. |